Rob and I did some performance enhancements with queues so that a
Queue.send() call was decoupled from the dispatch processing. In the
past, depending on the state of the consumers, a Queue.send() call could
take a significant amount of time. We changed it so that a single
thread was responsible for dispatching messages, which avoided a lot of
lock contention. It also meant a Queue.send() returned as quickly as
possible.
I imagine a similar change could be done for Topics, since from what I
can tell, a Topic.send() call currently does its dispatch processing in
the same call.
Cheers,
David
Jim Gomes wrote:
> I am very interested in this set of changes. I am currently
> load/performance testing ActiveMQ, and am very surprised at the results.
> Anything that can be done to speed this area is a good thing. I have found
> a dramatic drop in performance when adding even a single consumer,
> especially to a Topic. The producer to the Topic is slowed down quite a
> bit, which was a surprise to me. I expected that the
> existence/non-existence or performance of a consumer would have no impact on
> a producer, but that is not the case. A producer is directly impacted by
> any consumers, especially idle consumers. An idle Topic consumer can
> actually cause a producer to block. As far as I have been able to determine
> from browsing the documentation, this is by design.
>
> I am looking forward to your efforts in this area.
> Best Regards,
> Jim
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Cheers,
David
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